COCEMFE alert poverty increased in persons with disabilities.
COCEMFE alert poverty increased in persons with disabilities. -extreme poverty affects more than half of them 21,200 and persons with disabilities living with 357 euros a month -Cuts in social services, health, dependency, education and employment could worsen the situation COCEMFE requests to increase the levels of protection of persons with disabilities and structural measures ending discrimination of this collective Madrid, August 2012.- the Spanish Confederation of people with physical disabilities and organic (COCEMFE) want to alert to the risk management they can lead to the collective that represents the cuts that are being carried out at all levels in social services, health, dependency, education and employment. Persons with disabilities have an income 25% lower than the population in general, more than half in a situation of extreme poverty and in our country there is 21,200 people with disabilities who live a month only with a non-contributory pension, (357,70 EUR/month). This is therefore very inferior to what is accepted as the threshold of poverty (627 EUR/month), which is the level of minimum income necessary to acquire an adequate standard of living; and the indicator public income multiple effects (IPREM), set at 532,5 euros per month. These data show that there is an underworld within disability, are people who can hardly spend each month to receive a ridiculous income which nothing can support their personal autonomy and social integration ”...
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